Patients: the unintended consequences
Monday 27th July 2020
Cancer patients have become the unintended casualties of the Covid-19 virus as the lockdown has caused crucial investigations and treatments to be shut down, causing an explosion of stage 3 and 4 cancers. A huge…
The Business of Healthcare
Wednesday 5th February 2020
The business of healthcare is an interesting beast. It has been described as miraculous, uncertain, opportunistic, a right, and even an art form. Semantics aside, healthcare is one of the most significant industries in any…
Patient a.k.a. consumer
Health insurance, Health literacy
Wednesday 15th January 2020
For the patient, healthcare is about three things: timely treatment, professionalism access to quality care. But what if the patient is a commodity? Increasingly, we are seeing hospitals and insurance providers put a premium on…
Cellular Helper: How our phones can change the culture of care
Wednesday 4th December 2019
The use of mobile technology is impacting over two billion users. To put that into perspective, that is a larger number than the respective following for every major religion around the world. You could say…
What healthcare can learn from Hollywood
Friday 23rd November 2018
Can you remember what you did when faced with a task or responsibility that you know absolutely nothing about? You either got down to action and started researching – or you froze, and did nothing….